IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12376, 9 February 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

A PAPAL DECREE. (Presß Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) LONDON, February 8. The debate on the Address-in-Reply was continued m the House of Commons. Mr Campbell (Dublin Universtiy) arraigned Mr Birrell for inaction over the Papal decree m recusing to intervene m the case of Mrs McCann, whose children had been taken away because she refused to be re-married m a Catholic Church when the priest alleged that her offspring were illegitimate. Mr Birrell said that the McCann case was distressing, but the wife ? s redress was through the Civil Court. Presbyterian ministers were less interested m the woman than m using the case as an example of what would happen when Ireland secured Home Rule. A vituperative debate followed between the Irish Unionists and Nationalists, the latter stating that Mrs McCann 's bad temper was the cause of her husband hiding the children. (Received February 9, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, February 8, A ballot for priority of introduction of private members' Bills failed to give the Laborites a place even m the first thirty. Earl Denbigh appealed to the Government for assistance to the beet sugar industry. Earl Oarrington, President of the Board of Agriculture, m reply said the request amounted to the old policy of dry nursing infant industries, and the Government would have nothing to do with it. Mr Austen Chamberlain moved the Opposition's fiscal amendment to the Ad-dress-in-Reply. Messrs Mabon and Keir Bardic demanded a commission to enquire , into the assault charges against the police during the South Wales strike. Mr Churchill, m view of the high character of the metropolitan police, refused to consent to a general enquiry, but said he would investigate the individual charges.